It's not easy being green: Using molt and morphological criteria to age and sex green-plumage manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 481-491

  Ryder, Thomas B ^a   Durães, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Manakins; Molecular sexing; Molt; Pipridae; Tropical birds

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745843982     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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